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No more holding back for Gaudry

The Olympics are no place for battle-hardened routines, according to Australian trampolinist Blake Gaudry.

Instead, Gaudry will rely on a effort he's been developing for four years, but used only sparingly in competition, when the contest for trampoline gold at the Rio Games gets underway on Friday (0300 Saturday AEST).

"I haven't been doing them for a long time," Gaudry told AAP of the routines he'll pull out in Rio.

"I've been working on the new routines for four years, but the way the qualification process has been, I've had to stick with some routines that were a lot easier and a bit more consistent.

"We weren't able to take that risk in qualification, because we had to actually make sure we got to the Games before we could do the routines we actually wanted to do.

"It's only been really this last two months that I've done them."

Gaudry says he's a far cry from the rookie jumper who made his Olympic debut in 2012, when an errant landing early on his second routine cost him any chance of progressing to the finals.